Would be to fortify the protections, the Privacy Protections for americans in the law but the law has evolved and exactly the opposite direction and indeed since 9 11 there has been a sea change in the law. If you back up a few decades following the church committees revelations in 1970s there was a series of laws and policies put in place that establish a kind of golden rule. Intelligence agencies could not collect information on americans from within the United States without some individualized factbased suspicion of wrongdoing. Now the purpose and the effect of this rule was to constrain the abuses that had come before it. In the past 14 years a cardinal principle has been utterly jettisoned from the law. So lets talk about the three legal authorities that we know of under which mass surveillance is currently occurring. The first is section 215 of the patriot act. This is the provision that allows the government to get a fisa court order Compelling Companies to turn over Business R
Because of course if the government were targeting a particular known u. S. Person for surveillance for criminal prosecution purposes it would need a warrant. Heres how that looks in practice. The government certifies to the fisa court would have no interest in any particular known u. S. Person, clicks the data, then run searches on the data using the names phone numbers and email accounts of particular note u. S. Persons. This is called backdoor searches. The nsa and the set a data privately to thousand of these in 2013. According to the privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board the fbi does these routinely. Routinely searches databases containing section seven to data when it investigates americans or even performs assessments which means no factual basis. Warrantless surveillance, warrantless foreign Intelligence Surveillance have absolute become a domestic Law Enforcement tool. I do give anything to add or if you youre seeing this is concerned youre seeing a similar cases as well
Bothersome debate. And maybe its a symptom of why so Many Americans are kind of put off by the war. Why do you argue about stuff like that . But lets look at those names in a different way. Each of those names represents a perfectly valid perspective on the war. And each is a potential gateway for americans to engage in this story. This worldchanging story. The problem is and for reasons that seem mysterious to many, people who are not inclined toward history the problem is we continue to throw barriers large and subtle in the way of those intellectual gateways into this history. We view the labels, these names as not able to stand side by side but mutually exclusive. If the war is a war of northern aggression, it cant also be a war for emancipation. But, in fact it was. It was all those things. And thats okay. So like our fellow americans our history always challenges us to be better. We draw strength and inspiration from those who risked and gave all for our communitys protection, ou
They give you less time. I remained silent. I wouldnt address the court. And people said to me, why dont you do that . And maybe i was polly annaish about this but i felt it was a matter of principle. I felt i was in a kangaroo court. I felt my Constitutional Rights had been violated, and i wasnt going to participate. And as a result, i turned down a deal, by the way, i could have had a deal on one count probably would have done 18 months. The doj was going to insist on prison time, but the deal i turned down was 1 count, 18 months. It was a 10,000. My restitution would have been 10,000. I would have been fined 1 million. Instead, i said, no, they indicted me on 43 counts, faced 430 the government asked for 430 years in prison. I ultimately got only 72 months. I had to forfeit 62 million and fined 19 million on top of it. And then, of course, there is a story for another time, how enjoyable it is to be in federal prison 4 1 2 years when the feds are watching you. Because there are spec
This is real money. Thats our big concern. As i said, we continue to work with mr. Emerson to see if we can find something that works for lenders like him but that dont fuel the increasing cost of Title Insurance which is too high for home buyers. Recently i met with a group of missouri bankers who came to my office after they had been to visit some representatives over in their building and my bankers were talking about things that were talking about this morning. Qm rule. They were told by the representatives that they were the 41st group to meet with them and basically the gist of the conversation at the end of it was that thank you for coming. We know more about the effects of whats going to happen to the bo borrowers, lenders and market than you do. As a result of that, a number of my delegation members wrote to the director and he responded back to us and madame chair, i would like those two letters made as part of the record. Without objection. In the letter the director indicat